Improvement in clothes-pins



H. H. MASON.

CLOTHES-PIN.

Patented Nqv. 30, 1875.

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HENRY H. MASON, OF SPRINGFIELD, VERMONT.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLOTHES-PINS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 170,579, dated November 30, 1875; application filed October 4, 1875. I

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, HENRY H. MASON, of Springfield, in the countyof Windsor and State of Vermont, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Clothes-Pins; and that the following is a full, clear, and'exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings and to the letters of reference marked thereon, making a part of this specification.

This invention is in the nature of an improvement in spring clothes-pins; and the invention consists in a spring clothespin constructed with a V or U shaped spring, provided with a depression forming the seats for the retaining-pins, substantially in the manner hereinafter described.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation, partly in section, of my clothes-pin; Fig. 2,a rear-end view; and Fig.3, a perspective view of the spring detached from the pin. I

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

A represents the two parts of a spring clothes-pin. lnto suitable grooves or channels 1), formed in these parts, is fitted a V- shaped spring, B, the apex of the spring pointing to the front end of the pin, and the sides of the spring resting Within the grooves, and passing rearward. Into these. sides 0 c are formed indentations or corrugations ff, one

in each side, so that when the spriugis in position, pins g, passing through holes h in the two parts of the clothes-pin, rest in these grooves or corrugations f, which form seats for the pins, and thereby hold the spring B tightly confined to the sides of the clothespin, so that the spring B cannot become detached from these sides; and, besides, the spring is held securelyin its given position, and is prevented from working back and forth within the grooves when the pin is operated.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The herein-described clothes-pin, having the recessed parts A combined with a V-shap-ed spring, B, by means of pins passed through said parts A, and fitting in indentations in said spring, the whole constructed substantially as shown and described.

HENRY H. MASON. Witnesses: v

H. L. WATTENBERG, M. LovELL. 

